Mexico’s Sonora State is known as prime gold country, specifically within their 632-area code Sonoro Gold is a relatively new exploration and development company in the region and is already on the fast-track to production Mining, like real estate, is all about location, location, location. Some of the world’s prime mining real estate is in Mexico’s Sonora State, the precious metals equivalent of Toronto’s Bridle Path, Vancouver’s toney Shaughnessy Heights or Toronto’s Lawrence Park M4N postal code. The region around Sonora’s capital city, Hermosillo, has been known as a prime gold country since Jesuit missionaries staked claims to the property that would eventually become the La Colorada gold mine in 1740.